I think a lot about how the inevitability of former vice presidents winning presidential primaries, combined with the incompetence with which both pre-VP Biden and Harris ran in primaries before being selected, effectively indicates presidential primaries are non-democratic
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A lot of the perversities of democracy people don't like could only be directly opposed by making the primary system less democratic
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There's strong arguments to be made for doing stuff like barring primary losers from repeatedly trying again or intentionally weighting the contest toward upstarts and newcomers but all of that is putting a thumb on the scale of "democracy"
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